Alexander Rincón Ruiz

Short Bio Alexander is an Economist from the National University of Colombia, where he began studying the relationship between economy and the environment using strategic prospective and econometrics tools. He also has a Master's degree in Agrarian Economics from the National University of Colombia; his research project was on ecological economics and biodiversity. He has been consulting for the National Planning Department and the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) in Colombia, he was senior researcher in the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute in Colombia and was researcher of the Colombian group of the millennium Ecosystem Assessment. At the moment he is PhD student in Ecological Economics at ICTA, UAB. Alexander's research focuses on the interface between ecological and economic systems; it includes topics such as spatial simulation, modelling, biodiversity, deforestation and socio ecological conflicts. At the moment he is researching the socioecological conflict in Colombia around the coca crops, using spatial data and a socioecological framework.